The Weekly Exchange: Volume Two is the second installment of D Edward Ennis & Steve T Harding's weekly writing project. Collected here are weeks 53 to 104 - 52 new poems from each author. Each week D Edward and Steve write a poem that includes a phrase that they take turns suggesting. Each writer writes without knowledge of the other's work until the final products are shared Friday evening. What you'll find are poems that take on a wide range of topics from childhood to the apocalypse; from giant beavers to the economy.
Volume 6 of the ongoing Weekly Exchange project between D Edward Ennis and Steve T Harding that produces 104 new poems each year. Each week D Edward and Steve write a poem that includes a phrase that they take turns suggesting. Each writer writes without knowledge of the other's work until the final products are shared Saturday morning. What you'll find are poems that take on a wide range of topics from childhood to the apocalypse; from suburbia to bourbon.
Curbside Pickup is a socially conscious dark comedy in its own sort. Fifty poemsdivided between five seasons build together as a loose narrative covering a yearin the life of its speaker with who, through his tales of past and present, weget the down and dirty details of daily life in an East coast town dead set inblue collar America.Ennis' characters sometimes plain, sometimes seedy...sometimes innocent but justsimply stuck, all live in a world not too far from James Tate's or Tom Waits'.And with Ennis' enjoyment in the absurdity of human nature, colors of Hunter SThompson are also present, just replace the acid with a cheap beer or maybe alucky glass of scotch.
Curbside Pickup is a socially conscious dark comedy in its own sort. Fifty poemsdivided between five seasons build together as a loose narrative covering a yearin the life of its speaker with who, through his tales of past and present, weget the down and dirty details of daily life in an East coast town dead set inblue collar America.Ennis' characters sometimes plain, sometimes seedy...sometimes innocent but justsimply stuck, all live in a world not too far from James Tate's or Tom Waits'.And with Ennis' enjoyment in the absurdity of human nature, colors of Hunter SThompson are also present, just replace the acid with a cheap beer or maybe alucky glass of scotch.
The Weekly Exchange: Volume Two is the second installment of D Edward Ennis & Steve T Harding's weekly writing project. Collected here are weeks 53 to 104 - 52 new poems from each author. Each week D Edward and Steve write a poem that includes a phrase that they take turns suggesting. Each writer writes without knowledge of the other's work until the final products are shared Friday evening. What you'll find are poems that take on a wide range of topics from childhood to the apocalypse; from giant beavers to the economy.
The Color of Success tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the "yellow peril" to "model minorities"--peoples distinct from the white majority but lauded as well-assimilated, upwardly mobile, and exemplars of traditional family values--in the middle decades of the twentieth century. As Ellen Wu shows, liberals argued for the acceptance of these immigrant communities into the national fold, charging that the failure of America to live in accordance with its democratic ideals endangered the country's aspirations to world leadership. Weaving together myriad perspectives, Wu provides an unprecedented view of racial reform and the contradictions of national belonging in the civil rights era. She highlights the contests for power and authority within Japanese and Chinese America alongside the designs of those external to these populations, including government officials, social scientists, journalists, and others. And she demonstrates that the invention of the model minority took place in multiple arenas, such as battles over zoot suiters leaving wartime internment camps, the juvenile delinquency panic of the 1950s, Hawaii statehood, and the African American freedom movement. Together, these illuminate the impact of foreign relations on the domestic racial order and how the nation accepted Asians as legitimate citizens while continuing to perceive them as indelible outsiders. By charting the emergence of the model minority stereotype, The Color of Success reveals that this far-reaching, politically charged process continues to have profound implications for how Americans understand race, opportunity, and nationhood.
Combines historical information with photographs, primary source excerpts, and first-person narratives to examine the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and its implications.
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